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Hertford College Donor Report 2019 Contents HERTFORD COLLEGE DONOR REPORT 2019 CONTENTS PRINCIPAL’S WELCOME 5 FACTS AND FIGURES 7 BURSAR’S VIEW 8 BURSARIES AND STUDENT SUPPORT 11 WHAT’S NEXT? 22 OUTREACH 12 YOUNG HERTFORD COLLEGE CHOIR 16 ALUMNI GIVING 25 WHY GIVE TO HERTFORD? 26 LEGACIES 28 HERTFORD COLLEGE DONOR LISTING 30 BOAT CLUB 18 INTERNATIONAL DONOR COMMUNITY 36 The Donor Report is published by the Development Office for alumni and friends of the college. The opinions expressed are those of the writers and are not necessarily the official views of Hertford College. Editor: Alicia Povey | Design: www.dougdawson.co.uk Produced by: Development Office, Hertford College, Oxford OX1 3BW +44 (0) 1865 279428 | [email protected] | www.hertford.ox.ac.uk Hertford College is a registered charity in England and Wales, number 1137527 FROM THE EDITOR We’re delighted to share with you the Hertford College Donor Report 2019. Our hope with this publication is to let you know more about how your donations are used, and to share the stories of those who have benefitted from the exceptional generosity of our alumni and friends. ALICIA POVEY Alumni Events In the spirit of ‘Community of Giving’ we asked our contributors to describe and Communications Officer Hertford in one word. As you will see in the subsequent pages, Hertford means something different to each one of them, but the overwhelming sense of belonging is universal. HERTFORD IN As ever, we are keen to hear your feedback on our publications. If there ONE WORD are any areas you would like to know more about, or less, or if you have a personal story you’d like to share about the impact of donations at Hertford, we’d love to hear from you. UNASSUMING GET IN TOUCH We love it when our alumni stay in touch! In order to make it as easy as possible to stay up-to-date with all Hertford news, events and cat photos, we’ve made sure to cover all bases on social media! Facebook (@hertfordcollegealumni) Follow us on Facebook to stay up to date with events and news from students and alumni alike. Twitter (@HertfordCollege) Bitesize college news and updates, with more general University goings- on also frequently shared. Instagram (@hertfordcollege) Our Instagram is one for the cat lovers! Regular updates of Simpkin, alongside plenty of photos of college, students and events. Linkedin (Hertford College alumni group) A great way to stay in touch with other alumni and see what they’re up to professionally. Alumni are welcome to post in the group, alongside the regular updates from the Development Team. We hope to connect with you soon! The Development Team From left to right: Olga Batty, Sarah Bridge, Julia Thaxton, Jason Fiddaman, Alicia Povey DONOR REPORT 2019 | 3 PRINCIPAL’S WELCOME It is Principal’s Collections – and I good as when you were here- and, if it and more time-warped paintings. imagine every reader of this article can find the wherewithal, it needs to Renewed they now look great. has in their time sat in front of the push on and keep up with the best in Meanwhile others are happy to be Principal of the day, the Senior Tutor Oxford. Colleges are only as strong as part of consortia contributing, limited and their own particular tutors taking their weakest link, and donations are to ten years, towards the salaries of in the good or bad news from their crucial on two vital dimensions. They our fellows – in Computer Science, academic reports. Some of you will obviously boost the endowment, our in Law, in Geography, in Physics and look back on the Collections fondly – investment income and our general in History, just to name a few. Not to others will be writhing in their seats viability. As the bursar explains, mention hardship grants or support at the recollection. without our investment income we to promote access to Hertford from simply could not afford the nearly students in the Medway towns. I This year, knowing I was going to 100 lecturers who supplement the have been particularly pleased that write this article, I added a new teaching capacity of the fellowship – a number of you have been so ready twist. In a word, I asked a random the tutorial system would perish and to support research into Artificial sample of students, how they would so would Collections. But donations Intelligence; for example our junior describe Hertford. Of course, no- can also be targeted at the areas of the research fellow, Andrew Cropper, one is going to have the brass-neck college which need a boost, extend is one of the most outstanding to say to the Principal that the our range or just put our mainstream researchers in the field and helping college is all over the place – but activity – from teaching to access to make Hertford one of the centres even allowing for a natural desire work – on a firmer footing. Here we of what will be a frontier academic to please, I was taken back by how try to adopt the same individualized discipline in the twenty first century. quickly and readily people answered approach as at Collections; our alumni It has required a donor to step in to so positively. “Welcoming”, “Friendly”, have different priorities they want to make the difference. “Challenging – but in a good way”. back – so we try to identify particular “Supportive” were the overwhelming activities or projects that suit them. Each one of you is an individual, and answers. There was only one warning: So, over the past couple of years we the aim of the Development Office that we should not take our prized have welcomed a £50K donation is to get to know you, make sure sense of community for granted. The for the boat club and a near £150K you feel part of Hertford and when threat of division between students, donation phased over three years to the opportunity comes – when the and between our common rooms, support an early career fellow who kids have left home, in a legacy or existed just as much at Hertford as will spend part of her time supporting as the result of a windfall – to know elsewhere. Be alert! all our students pedagogically from what part of what we do could be essay planning to writing up lab best supported by you. We do help We will be – proof of the worth work. Nearly half Oxford colleges ourselves: we know that people want of Principal’s Collections. They are now provide support of this kind; we to feel their funds are matched by a remarkable institution. Every cannot afford to be left behind. So ours if we can, and that the college is student gets 6 or 7 minutes of our the vitality of the boat club was one prepared to put its money where its time once a year to discuss their donor’s concern – a crucial part of mouth is. We don’t want to come over strengths and weaknesses, be our sporting and social capital in his as helpless. Rather our proposition is offered encouragement, to see if any view: for another it was making sure that we can be so much more with problems need to be picked up and that students know how to write and you support. whether they are emotionally and research on their own account – again psychologically holding up. Over the not a skill in which all our tutors and Philanthropy, as John Paul years I have encountered the gamut; lecturers claim to be comprehensive Getty Junior has recently said, is from a few students on the edge to experts or can spare the requisite redemptive. To give to support a those who, if only they can conquer time. Pedagogy is a skill and research great cause is a statement about who their reticence and lack of self-belief area in its own right. you are and what you value. I have (a kind of imposter syndrome), will go been privileged to be Principal for on to get good if not brilliant degrees Another donor has wanted to eight years: next year will be my last. – especially if we can find the right cornerstone the renewal of our However, I find solace in the fact that words and follow-up to persuade library, while others want to support each one of us altogether, can and them they are as good as we think the choir in this summer’s trip to have helped orchestrate a step-up in they are. The process is unique: but Hungary or fund field trips (especially our capacity, ambition and outlook it is also expensive, involving at least in Geography and Archeology and as a college, and with your ongoing 100 hours of direct face time each Anthropology). The Hertford Society support, Hertford will complete its term (300 hours over the academic is a doughty investor in successive transformation from a college at the year) and only marginally less on generations of Simpkins, and also back of the Oxford pack to one at the top in writing the reports. It’s also helped in the restoration of our older forefront. very particular: each student gets individualized attention. But I have no doubt it helps to make Hertford - and indeed Oxford – what they are. HERTFORD IN ONE WORD This is the bond between alumni, today’s students and the college: we are all part of the same community that extends over time and which holds these processes dear. Hertford ENUINE has a responsibility to be at least as G DONOR REPORT 2019 | 5 20 YEAR MATRICULATION DONORS BY 1000 NUMBEROFDONORS TOTAL FIGURES AND FACTS 6 | 25 10 15 400 800 600 0 5 HERTFORD COLLEGE HERTFORD 1938 1945 1946 1947 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 1948 602 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 575 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 59 1964 1965 3 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 61 1972 2 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 648 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 61 1986 1 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 796 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 878 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 880 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 96 2015 6 2016 2017 2018 INVESTMENT OTHER MANAGEMENT COSTS INVESTMENT £22,000 £471,000 INCOME £2,413,000 TRADING EXPENDITURE £2,314,000 DONATIONS AND COLLEGE FUNDRAISING COLLEGE LEGACIES INCOME £560,000 EXPENDITURE £1,978,000 TEACHING, RESEARCH AND RESIDENTIAL TEACHING, £6,038,000 RESEARCH AND INTERNATIONAL RESIDENTIAL PROGRAMMES £8,625,000 £3,199,000 Figures taken from Herford College Consolidated Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31 July 2018.
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